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Hachette CEO writes every email himself. He says AI shortcuts are creating a ‘worse C-suite’

Fortune5 min read

Executives are saving hours by letting AI summarize articles and write their emails. But some leaders fear delegating these tasks to AI could come with unforeseen consequences.

Some of the world’s most successful business leaders are voracious readers. Bill Gates told The New York Times in 2016 that he reads 50 books a year. Warren Buffett is said to spend as much as 80% of his working day reading and thinking. In 2000, when a Columbia Business School student asked him how to prepare for a career in investing, Buffett pointed to a stack of reports and told the class to read 500 pages like that every day, because knowledge “builds up, like compound interest.” But a new wave of executives…

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